Word: tangeorkheh
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...years a bandit chieftain named Dadshah has ruled supreme on the harsh and inhospitable Tangeorkheh Desert in southeastern Iran, looting, pillaging, murdering and conducting a brisk trade in girls in the slave markets of the Persian Gulf. But though the bandit chief rates as Iran's Public Enemy No. 1, his business, a strictly domestic affair, has gone largely unhampered by the Shah's gendarmery. Last week banditry on Dadshah's desert became an international concern, and the Shah himself ordered the gendarmes out to catch the culprits, try them on the spot and shoot them dead...
Party in Jeeps. Ever since a tangle with the gendarmes last month in a remote mountain pass, Dadshah had been expecting the gendarmes to come after him. One day last fortnight, spotting a couple of jeeps crossing Tangeorkheh, the bandits opened fire, knowing that Iranian cops move by jeep. Instead this was a party of five, including two American members of a technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across...
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